no medium that relies on voters to take the initiative for educating themselves can ever have the broad reach of tv where political messages intrude unbidden into living rooms. will it revolutionize mix? that's harder to see. so said ari fleischer in 1999 before he became white house press secretary. ah, this computer thing, it's just a flash in the pan. in all fairness, though, it was not just ari fleischer. pretty much everybody in 1999 was agog with what these california software geeks were doing with the internets and how it was affecting politics maybe some day in the future. of course, house republicans did go ahead with the impeachment process. so the censure and move on folks decided that they would not fold up. they decided to use the amazing magical power of the internet machine to try to make at least some of the pro-impeachment republicans pay for that stance. the folks with the online petition decided to reinvent themselves as a pac in 1999. they endorsed and started fundraising for a handful of progressive congressional candidates. again, the novelty was not that they were